Hylaeus (Prosopis) rubosus ( WARNCKE, 1981 ), 2020

Özbek, Hikmet & Dathe, Holger H., 2020, The bees of the genus Hylaeus FABRICIUS, 1793 of Turkey, with keys to the subgenera and species (Hymenoptera: Anthophila, Colletidae), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 70 (2), pp. 273-346 : 330

Hylaeus (Prosopis) rubosus ( WARNCKE, 1981)

Fig. 13

Prosopis (Nesoprosopis) rubosa WARNCKE, 1981: 159–160 , .

Turkey: Birecik. – WARNCKE 1981: 187 as rugosa [!]; 1992:

768.

Hylaeus (Prosopis) rubosus ( WARNCKE, 1981) – comb. nov.

Material examined: Gaziantep: Nizip 7 km E, 07.07.1996, , leg. Brechtel / Ehrmann . Şanlıurfa: Birecik , 400 m, 27.06.1987, 2 , leg. R. Hensen .

Remarks: H. rubosus was described from Şanlıurfa by WARNCKE (1981). In the present study, Gaziantep is added to its distribution range, which is concentrated to southeastern Anatolia. The collecting localities suggest that it is a species of lowland, warm and dry habitats, occurring in steppes and open areas. It is rarely recorded from Turkey (2 provinces, Fig. 17 .IX).

Due to its size and the striking rust-brown colouring, the species is not to be overlooked. In its characters it appears much closer to H. variolaris than to H. excelsus .

Distribution: Iran, Turkey: Şanlıurfa (type locality)

( WARNCKE 1981); Gaziantep.

Figures

Fig. 13: H. (Prosopis) rubosus (WARNCKE, 1992). Holotype female: a–face, b–mesonotum, c–mesopleuron, d–propodeum and metasoma. Paratype male: e–face, f–mesonotum, g–mesopleuron, h–propodeum and metasoma, i–terminalia. – Scale bar 0.5 mm.

Fig. 17: Distribution map of rarely recorded Hylaeus species in Turkey: species collected in only one (1-12) or two (II-X)